Who Was Alive

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Born 21 October 1772 · died 25 July 1834, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  4. Adam Smith
  5. Immanuel Kant
  6. George Washington
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven
  11. Napoleon
  12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  13. Lord Byron
  14. Alexander Pushkin
  15. Victor Hugo
  16. Hans Christian Andersen
  17. Edgar Allan Poe
  18. Abraham Lincoln
  19. Charles Darwin
  20. Charles Dickens
  21. Otto von Bismarck
  22. Karl Marx
  23. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Leo Tolstoy
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When Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born, Napoleon was 3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 23, George Washington was 40, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 16 and Voltaire was 77.

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, Karl Marx was 16, Abraham Lincoln was 25, Leo Tolstoy was 5, Charles Darwin was 25 and Victor Hugo was 32.

Born during Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche was born 10 years after Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, Thomas Edison was born 13 years after Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, Mark Twain was born about a year after Samuel Taylor Coleridge died and Sarah Bernhardt was born 10 years after Samuel Taylor Coleridge died.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  24. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
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  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
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  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
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